ARGO and LIFE OF PI win big at Oscars®

ARGO took home Best Picture honors as well as Editing and Adapted Screenplay, while LIFE OF PI was awarded Best Director, Cinematography and VFX and Original Score Oscars®. Both were lit and shot using ARRI equipment. ARGO used a hybrid of film and digital: ARRICAM, ARRIFLEX 435, 235 & ALEXA. LIFE OF PI was shot in stereoscopic on ALEXA using Cameron Pace 3D rigs. This marks the second year in a row the cinematography and visual effects Academy Awards have gone to productions captured on ALEXA.

AMOUR, also shot on ALEXA, won the Best Foreign Film category.

Upon accepting the award for Best Picture, director/producer Ben Affleck said, “You have to work harder than you think you possibly can...It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you've got to get up.”

Ang Lee took home his second Oscar for directing. He thanked his team “for believing in the story and sharing this incredible journey…”